The Most Helpful Sign for Personal Growth
Astrology’s individualized approach can help you level up your personal growth. It helps you develop an accurate model of your strengths and weaknesses, and that self-awareness helps you to zero in on the practices that will be most effective.
All of the signs can help you grow, but one sign is a particularly useful guide in your personal growth journey.
The Sun is a Lonely Child: How the Discovery of Sedna Rewrote the Ego-centric Archetypes of Leo
Leo people with strong suns in their natal charts may be natural performers, but those qualities are the least of their concern. What they want more than anything is to belong in a constellation of stars, to dance and play with the others forever. Astrologer Ada Pembroke explores how the discovery of Sedna rewrites the story of sun and Leo archetypes.
Mercury in Detriment in Pisces: Is That Good or Bad?
What does it mean that Mercury is in detriment in Pisces? What are it’s strengths, and how do you cope with its weaknesses?
Mercury in Pisces: The Mind of the Poet
Mercury is said to be in detriment in Pisces, but its greatest weakness is its greatest strength, the ability to think like a poet.
How Pisces and Virgo Can Make You More Creative
What can design thinking help astrologers understand the creative dance of Virgo and Pisces?
Sagittarius Season: Rage Against the Dying of the Light
I stared into my light therapy lamp wondering: Why does a season ruled by Jupiter come at the darkest time of the year?
The Challenges of Living with Aries and the Warrior Archetype
One of the difficulties of working with archetypes is that they have the tendency to get stuck in time without anyone realizing it.
The Warrior, for example, is an archetype that seems pretty easy to understand: A warrior is someone who fights, right?
But where in the modern world do you find the Warrior?
Aries in the Wild: Living in the Shadow of Civilization
There is something wild in us that never climbed down from the trees, an inner cryptid that lives by the law of tooth and claw. It is the shadow of civilization, the part of us that must be sacrificed for peace. Like all shadows, it reasserts itself in ways we don't approve of when we turn our backs and refuse to acknowledge it.
Taurus Season: Let Me Find Peace
In his Book of Earth, Steven Forrest talks about the Taurus need to get your peace foot forward. I have been learning about that first hand during Taurus season this year.
Virgo: Beauty in Simple Things
Because sometimes there are beautiful things that would exist… if only someone would give them space.
Aquarius Inside: Anything but Cold
Assuming that behavior is the same as character is a disastrous mistake when trying to understand Aquarius.
A Skeptical Taurus's Path to Laziness... And Evolutionary Astrology
As an astrologer, I feel like I should cringe at the injustice when I read harsh critiques of the discipline, but I don’t. I remember what my first real encounter with astrology was like, and I marvel that I ever came to take astrology seriously at all.
The Astrological Signs Haunt Us
We don’t have the astrological signs. We channel them like mediums.